• STOP, YOU'RE KILLING ME - Warner Brothers, 1952. Starring Broderick Crawford, Claire Trevor, Virginia Gibson and Margaret Dumont. Big, brawling, braying Broderick Crawford and the divine Claire Trevor at her brassy, sassy height. As a hood and his wife/moll longing to go straight and enter high society for the sake of their daughter the pair tear it up, Broderick with his over the top performance, which is just right for the material and Claire's more shaded but equally well measured work. Joining them in the fun are several distinguished character actors, Ned Glass, Sheldon Leonard, Harry Morgan and Margaret Dumont, all doing some variant of their patented shtick and adding to the jolly nature of this black comedy. A Like New IB Technicolor print on 2 x 2000' reels in can

• ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS - 1964 science fiction classic. Starring Paul Mantee and Victor Lundin. The U. S. spaceship, while circling Mars to test its gravity, is drawn into the planet's gravitational field when it tries to avoid colliding with a meteor. Astronauts Christopher Draper and Dan McReady, accompanied by Mona, a pet monkey taken along for scientific observation, are forced to abandon their ship in ejector capsules. McReady is killed, but Draper and Mona safely reach Mars' surface. Conditions are rugged, but Draper soon learns to make fire by igniting certain stones that burn like coal, and when his oxygen gives out, he discovers that the stones give off the essential element. The monkey leads Draper to underground caves where he finds drinkable water and edible tubers. A slave escapes from an aircraft belonging to a strange planet and joins Draper on Mars. Draper christens him "Friday" and teaches him English, and the two become fast friends. When Friday's former captors begin to bombard Mars in an attempt to kill the escaped slave, Draper, Friday, and Mona escape through the underground canals of Mars and emerge at the planet's icecap. Just as a volcano erupts, melting the ice and causing a flood, the three are rescued by a U. S. spaceship. Beautiful IB Technicolor letterboxed print. Very Good to Excellent+, a few splices and very minor wear mainly on the head and tail of each reel, on 3x1600' reels - $599

• HERE COME THE GIRLS - Paramount Pictures, 1953. Starring Bob Hope, Rosemary Clooney, Tony Martin, Arlene Dahl and William Demarest. Bob Hope plays an inept chorus boy member in a turn of the century stage show. After being fired, he finds himself starring, acting as a decoy when a killer goes after the real star. Stanley Snodgrass, perhaps Broadway's clumsiest (if not oldest and most out-of-tune) chorus boy, finds himself unceremoniously ousted from yet another show, but when an infamous slasher starts threatening the show's leads, Stanley is brought back as the headliner, unaware that the police are using him as bait. Even with Detective Logan secretly posing as Stanley's valet, producer Harry Fraser fears Jack the Slasher may not put in an appearance soon enough to prevent Stanley from murdering his show. An Excellent+, mostly Like New IB Technicolor print on 2 x 1600' reels in cans - $499

• THE WAR BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN - 1972. Starring Jack Lemmon, Barbara Harris and Jason Robards. "Any man who hates dogs, women and children can't be all bad!" A sarcastic, near-sighted cartoonist averse to commitment, falls for an eye-catching brunette single mother of three, the only woman who can stand his strong anti-feminist opinions, and eventually moves in with her and proposes.  This film was probably inspired by William Windom's portrayal of a Thurber-like character in a TV series broadcast in 1969 called My World and Welcome To It which is a title of one of Thurber's books. Windom went on to do a one-man stage performance of Thurber's works including some animation of some of Thurber's drawings. At the end of The War Between Men and Women we see one of these animations, an anti-war piece by Thurber called "The Last Flower". The sequences with the animated characters mixed with live action are alone enough to make the movie worth watching. Recommended to any Jack Lemmon fan. Beautiful Like New condition Kodak LPP Color print with outstanding color and quality. On 2300' and 1600' reels in cans - $399

• SHE'S WORKING HER WAY THROUGH COLLEGE - Warner Brothers, 1952. Stars Ronald Reagan, Virginia Mayo, Gene Nelson and Don DeFore. A musical remake of THE MALE ANIMAL, a 1940's comedy that starred Olivia DeHavilland and Henry Fonda. Virginia Mayo as the burlesque-queen-turned-college-coed Angela, AKA "Hot Garters Gertie", is a former student of Reagan's character, Professor Palmer. In addition to her more obvious talents, it seems Angela is an aspiring playwright. In a series of unlikely coincidences, Ronnie and his student reunite and conspire to enroll Angela at the Ivy-covered college where Ronnie is a professor of theatre arts. This being the early '50's, Angela's shady past is concealed from one and all until she is ultimately unmasked by a jealous rival in the college musical show and threatened with expulsion. Angela's love interest is supplied by affable Gene Nelson, a dancer later turned choreographer and director. His style is athletic, a la Gene Kelly, and he has a pleasant singing voice. A routine in the gym on various pieces of gymnastic equipment is a standout. The future president's best scene is one in which he has an argument with his wife(Phyllis Thaxter)and gets rip-roaringly drunk. All in all, SHE'S WORKING HER WAY THROUGH COLLEGE is a charming and nostalgic musical, with some better-than-good performances scattered throughout. An Excellent+ to Like New IB Technicolor print on 2 x 2000' reels in cans - $699

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